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Berlusconi: Liking girls better than being gay
He refused to apologise for his fondness for young women and denied doing anything improper, after the case of the girl known as Ruby filled Italian Newspapers last week and opposition lawmakers called for him to resign. 'As always, I work without interruption and if occasionally I happen to look a beautiful girl in the face, it's better to like beautiful girls than to be gay,' he told a meeting at a motorcycle industry show in Milan. 'You should be completely reassured about the government and ...

Berlusconi rejects calls to resign over girl
Silvio Berlusconi addresses a motorcyle industry show in Milan. His comments provoked outrage among Gay Rights groups. Photograph: Antonio Calanni/AP Silvio Berlusconi today dismissed opposition calls to resign over reports he helped a 17-year-old bellydancer known as Ruby who attended parties at his villa at Arcore, near Milan. The Italian Prime Minister refused to apologise for his fondness for young women and denied doing anything improper, and said at a motorcyle show in Milan: "As alway...

Silvio Berlusconi of the Undying Passions Offends Gay Men, Women, Everyone
​Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a/k/a Mr. Foot in Mouth, will not resign just because maybe he had some sex parties with young girls, or because he likes to look a beautiful girl in the face now and again in the midst of a productive, hard-working day. According to the latest of Underage allegations against the 74-year-old PM, a Moroccan girl who goes by the name "Ruby" told prosecutors she had attended parties with sex games ("bunga-bunga" parties, in the parlance) at Berlus...

Berlusconi Says It's Better to Be Attracted to Pretty Women Than Gay Men
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said it’s better “to be passionate about” pretty women than Gay men and repeated that he helped a 17-year-old dancer out of kindness....

Liking girls beats being gay - Berlusconi - The Irish Times - Tue, Nov 02, 2010
He refused to apologise for his fondness for Young women and denied doing anything improper, after the case of the girl known as Ruby filled Italian Newspapers last week and opposition politicians called for him to resign. "As always, I work without interruption and if occasionally I happen to look a beautiful girl in the face, it's better to like beautiful girls than to be gay," he told a meeting at a motorcycle industry show in Milan. "You should be completely reassured about the government an...

Old ally leads calls for Berlusconi's head over teen stripper scandal
The man seen as the Italian right's leader-in-waiting has called on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to quit, should he fail to refute allegations that he abused his power to keep the lid on yet another Sex Scandal. Parliamentary speaker Gianfranco Fini finally weighed in to the political storm that has raged since claims emerged that the 74-year-old pressured Police into releasing a 17-year-old Moroccan lap dancer accused of theft. Mr Berlusconi is no stranger to being caught – politicall...

Italian Premier Berlusconi: Better to Love Women than Gays
ROME -- Premier Silvio Berlusconi dismissed calls Tuesday to resign over his involvement with an Underage Moroccan runaway -- and even created a new uproar by claiming it was better to love beautiful girls than Gays. His comments sparked outrage from Gay Rights groups and fueled new calls for him to step down. Opposition politicians have charged that Berlusconi abused his office by calling Milan police in May when the then-17-year-old runaway nicknamed Ruby was detained for alleged theft. News...

This Week's Berlusconi Sex Scandal
What is this? Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has denied any wrongdoing when he had Police release an Underage girl who attended parties at his villa. It's the chutzpah that is just full of awesome. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is involved in yet another Sex Scandal with an Underage girl. From the NYT: At the heart of it all is a Moroccan girl nicknamed Ruby, who turned 18 on Monday, but was still a minor last May when she was held in a Police Station in Milan, accused ...

Better to love women than gays: Berlusconi
AP Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has dismissed calls to resign over his involvement with an Underage Moroccan runaway - and even created a new uproar by claiming it was better to love beautiful girls than Gays. His comments on Tuesday sparked outrage from Gay Rights groups and fuelled new calls for him to step down. Opposition politicians have charged that Berlusconi abused his office by calling Milan police in May when the then-17-year-old runaway nicknamed Ruby was detained for a...

Package Bomb Series: Greek Authorities Focus on Radical Left
The series of package bombs originating in Greece continued late on Tuesday with officials discovering an explosive parcel addressed to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Athens authorities are focusing on left-wing Militant groups in the Greek capital. The list of package bombs is long. Every day so far this week, authorities have discovered new explosive devices concealed as parcels and bound for addresses both in Athens and across the European continent. All of them are thought to ha...

Berlusconi: Better to Love Women Than Gays
Tuesday, November 02, 2010 By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press Rome (AP) - Premier Silvio Berlusconi dismissed calls Tuesday to resign over his involvement with an Underage Moroccan runaway - and even created a new uproar by claiming it was better to love beautiful girls than Gays. His comments sparked outrage from Gay Rights groups and fueled new calls for him to step down. Opposition politicians have charged that Berlusconi abused his office by calling Milan police in May when the then-1...

Berlusconi: Better to love women than gays
ROME — Premier Silvio Berlusconi dismissed calls Tuesday to resign over his involvement with an Underage Moroccan runaway — and even created a new uproar by claiming it was better to love beautiful girls than Gays. His comments sparked outrage from Gay Rights groups and fueled new calls for him to step down. Opposition politicians have charged that Berlusconi abused his office by calling Milan police in May when the then-17-year-old runaway nicknamed Ruby was detained for alleged the...

Berlusconi: Better to love women than gays
ROME (AP) — Premier Silvio Berlusconi dismissed calls Tuesday to resign over his involvement with an Underage Moroccan runaway - and even created a new uproar by claiming it was better to love beautiful girls than Gays. His comments sparked outrage from Gay Rights groups and fueled new calls for him to step down. Opposition politicians have charged that Berlusconi abused his office by calling Milan police in May when the then-17-year-old runaway nicknamed Ruby was detained for allege...

Berlusconi tries to laugh off sex scandal with anti-gay joke
Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi talks with Italian lawmaker Daniela Santanch during a debate in the upper house of Parliament in Rome September 29, 2010. Rebel centre-right Italian lawmakers expressed their satisfaction with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Speech to parliament. Agence France-Presse · Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 ROME — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi attempted to laugh off a potentially damaging Sex Scandal with a homophobic joke on Tuesday, as Italy’s pol...

Italian link to letter bombs investigated
Published: Nov. 3, 2010 at 4:11 PM ROME, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Italian security experts say they're trying to determine if there's a link between Italian subversive groups and letter bombs sent to several European leaders. Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi received a letter bomb mailed from Athens and sent on a cargo plane by way of Paris, ANSA reported Wednesday. Greek police say they believe more than 10 letter bombs were apparently mailed on the same day from Athens. The letter to Berlusconi arouse...

Suspect parcel for Berlusconi takes fire at Italy airport
A suspect package addressed to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and linked to a series of parcel bombs posted in Greece caught fire at Italy's Bologna airport, ANSA news agency reported. ...

Italy airport reopens after bomb removed
AFP Bologna airport in northern Italy was reopened to traffic early on Wednesday after being closed for hours because of a parcel bomb addressed to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, ANSA news agency reported. The Package was discovered on a plane that diverted to Bologna. The parcel caught fire when experts tried to open it, but no one was hurt. Seven flights from European cities were turned away from Bologna and forced to travel on to other destinations before the airport was reopened to tra...

Kneeling Before Our New Orange Overlord (Day One)
All Hail John Boehner, America’s newly crowned Orange Mikado! Blessings and peace be upon him, and may he bestow upon us a plentiful Cigarette harvest, so that we may have Cancer of the lungs and/or mouth, whatever. Yes, November really was the Teabaggers’ “N word.” But c’mon people, it’s not like the Republicans eloped with your girlfriend and then tongue punched her fart box. (Some of us don’t even have girlfriends to tongue punch.) Anyway, which Democ...

Berlusconi’s Party Remains Italy’s Most Popular, Poll Shows
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s People of Liberty party is still Italy’s most popular political grouping, according to a poll published in Il Sole 24 Ore. The party would win 29.5 percent of the vote if Elections were held now, compared with 24 percent for the largest opposition bloc, the Democratic Party, the Ipsos Srl poll published by the newspaper today showed. The results are about the same as those from the most recent weekly poll by Ipsos, a spokesman ...

Berlusconi refuses to apologise for 'vulgar and gratuitous' remarks
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has dismissed calls to resign over reports he helped a 17-year-old girl who attended parties at his house, saying it was "better to like beautiful girls than to be gay". He refused to apologise yesterday for his fondness for young women and denied doing anything improper, after the case of the girl known as Ruby Rubacuori - "Ruby Heartbreaker" - filled Italian Newspapers last week and opposition MPs called for him to ADVERTISEMENT step down. "As always,...

Dont Ask, Dont Vote
Rachel Williams, The Black Sphere Apparently the Rights of our Troops only matter when it comes to the “right” to be Openly Gay—and not to silly things like the Constitutionally protected right to vote. The MOVE Act, which requires Absentee Ballots be mailed to Military stationed or deployed overseas 45 Days before the Election, doesn’t seem to apply anymore.  Seven states missed their deadline, and although New York was granted a 15 day extension, they are two weeks late to e

Uganda newspaper stokes anti-gay sentiment
Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa — Stosh, a 33-year-old Lesbian, lived a secret life because of a Ugandan law against Homosexuality until a newspaper recently identified her as Gay. That afternoon, people in a cafe started pointing at her. She left in a hurry. "I went to a shop where I usually buy things," Stosh said. "The woman there wouldn't sell me anything. She was speaking rudely, calling me a faggot." Get dispatches from Times correspondents around the globe delivered to ...

Ugandan Court Bars Photos, Names of Gays in Paper
KAMPALA, Uganda -- Uganda's High Court has ordered a Controversial newspaper to stop publishing the names and photographs of people it says are Gay, ruling that the publication is violating their right to Privacy. A Gay Rights group, Sexual Minorities Uganda, sought the injunction after the paper on Monday published its second straight edition with names and photos. The first edition, published in early October, sparked attacks against at least four gay Ugandans, Sexual Minorities Uganda said....

Putin: is he the ultimate PR solution?
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 2 November 2010 20.00 GMT Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin carries a hunting rifle during his trip to Tuva Republic. Photograph: Afp/AFP/Getty Images I went to the opening of The Expendables recently, in the mood for a little bit of escapism, and was bowled over by the crowd's whooping, hollering love for Sly, Lundgren, Arnie, Bruce et al. There seemed to be more love than you could have ever expected for a formula, and a set of stars, who for the most part reac...

While You Were Voting: Explosive Packages Sent To Leaders In Europe
Here is one measure of how completely yesterday’s Election dominated the big headlines. While the nation and the media (probably more that latter than the former) were focused on the Midterm results last night authorities in Europe were scrambling to intercept packages containing bombs that had been sent to leaders in Germany and Italy. From CNN: A package containing Explosives was found at the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday and was handed over to police, her spokesma...